Re: sarge->etch on Performa 6360, new 2.6.18-3 kernel problems.
> Booting with BootX into the 2.6.18-3 kernel that the etch upgrade
> installed gives a slightly corrupted display that initially does what
> it should, but when it gets to working on the root filesystem, just
> sits there waiting. The screen looks like this at the point it fails:
>
> http://www.danamania.com/temp/performafail.jpg
>
> You can see some of the characters are corrupted - there are three
> columns of this corruption down the screen, flickering like there's
> some data flowing through the pixels in those characters, even when
> it sits there waiting for the root file system.
Sounds like the kernel is using what counted for framebuffer memory as
disk buffers now.
Michael
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